linux-stable/Documentation/vm/index.rst
Linus Torvalds 98931dd95f Yang Shi has improved the behaviour of khugepaged collapsing of readonly
file-backed transparent hugepages.
 
 Johannes Weiner has arranged for zswap memory use to be tracked and
 managed on a per-cgroup basis.
 
 Munchun Song adds a /proc knob ("hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap") for runtime
 enablement of the recent huge page vmemmap optimization feature.
 
 Baolin Wang contributes a series to fix some issues around hugetlb
 pagetable invalidation.
 
 Zhenwei Pi has fixed some interactions between hwpoisoned pages and
 virtualization.
 
 Tong Tiangen has enabled the use of the presently x86-only
 page_table_check debugging feature on arm64 and riscv.
 
 David Vernet has done some fixup work on the memcg selftests.
 
 Peter Xu has taught userfaultfd to handle write protection faults against
 shmem- and hugetlbfs-backed files.
 
 More DAMON development from SeongJae Park - adding online tuning of the
 feature and support for monitoring of fixed virtual address ranges.  Also
 easier discovery of which monitoring operations are available.
 
 Nadav Amit has done some optimization of TLB flushing during mprotect().
 
 Neil Brown continues to labor away at improving our swap-over-NFS support.
 
 David Hildenbrand has some fixes to anon page COWing versus
 get_user_pages().
 
 Peng Liu fixed some errors in the core hugetlb code.
 
 Joao Martins has reduced the amount of memory consumed by device-dax's
 compound devmaps.
 
 Some cleanups of the arch-specific pagemap code from Anshuman Khandual.
 
 Muchun Song has found and fixed some errors in the TLB flushing of
 transparent hugepages.
 
 Roman Gushchin has done more work on the memcg selftests.
 
 And, of course, many smaller fixes and cleanups.  Notably, the customary
 million cleanup serieses from Miaohe Lin.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Almost all of MM here. A few things are still getting finished off,
  reviewed, etc.

   - Yang Shi has improved the behaviour of khugepaged collapsing of
     readonly file-backed transparent hugepages.

   - Johannes Weiner has arranged for zswap memory use to be tracked and
     managed on a per-cgroup basis.

   - Munchun Song adds a /proc knob ("hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap") for
     runtime enablement of the recent huge page vmemmap optimization
     feature.

   - Baolin Wang contributes a series to fix some issues around hugetlb
     pagetable invalidation.

   - Zhenwei Pi has fixed some interactions between hwpoisoned pages and
     virtualization.

   - Tong Tiangen has enabled the use of the presently x86-only
     page_table_check debugging feature on arm64 and riscv.

   - David Vernet has done some fixup work on the memcg selftests.

   - Peter Xu has taught userfaultfd to handle write protection faults
     against shmem- and hugetlbfs-backed files.

   - More DAMON development from SeongJae Park - adding online tuning of
     the feature and support for monitoring of fixed virtual address
     ranges. Also easier discovery of which monitoring operations are
     available.

   - Nadav Amit has done some optimization of TLB flushing during
     mprotect().

   - Neil Brown continues to labor away at improving our swap-over-NFS
     support.

   - David Hildenbrand has some fixes to anon page COWing versus
     get_user_pages().

   - Peng Liu fixed some errors in the core hugetlb code.

   - Joao Martins has reduced the amount of memory consumed by
     device-dax's compound devmaps.

   - Some cleanups of the arch-specific pagemap code from Anshuman
     Khandual.

   - Muchun Song has found and fixed some errors in the TLB flushing of
     transparent hugepages.

   - Roman Gushchin has done more work on the memcg selftests.

  ... and, of course, many smaller fixes and cleanups. Notably, the
  customary million cleanup serieses from Miaohe Lin"

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (381 commits)
  mm: kfence: use PAGE_ALIGNED helper
  selftests: vm: add the "settings" file with timeout variable
  selftests: vm: add "test_hmm.sh" to TEST_FILES
  selftests: vm: check numa_available() before operating "merge_across_nodes" in ksm_tests
  selftests: vm: add migration to the .gitignore
  selftests/vm/pkeys: fix typo in comment
  ksm: fix typo in comment
  selftests: vm: add process_mrelease tests
  Revert "mm/vmscan: never demote for memcg reclaim"
  mm/kfence: print disabling or re-enabling message
  include/trace/events/percpu.h: cleanup for "percpu: improve percpu_alloc_percpu event trace"
  include/trace/events/mmflags.h: cleanup for "tracing: incorrect gfp_t conversion"
  mm: fix a potential infinite loop in start_isolate_page_range()
  MAINTAINERS: add Muchun as co-maintainer for HugeTLB
  zram: fix Kconfig dependency warning
  mm/shmem: fix shmem folio swapoff hang
  cgroup: fix an error handling path in alloc_pagecache_max_30M()
  mm: damon: use HPAGE_PMD_SIZE
  tracing: incorrect isolate_mote_t cast in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate
  nodemask.h: fix compilation error with GCC12
  ...
2022-05-26 12:32:41 -07:00

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=====================================
Linux Memory Management Documentation
=====================================
Memory Management Guide
=======================
This is a guide to understanding the memory management subsystem
of Linux. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory,
see the :ref:`memory_allocation`. For controlling and tuning guides,
see the :doc:`admin guide <../admin-guide/mm/index>`.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
physical_memory
page_tables
process_addrs
bootmem
page_allocation
vmalloc
slab
highmem
page_reclaim
swap
page_cache
shmfs
oom
Legacy Documentation
====================
This is a collection of older documents about the Linux memory management
(MM) subsystem internals with different level of details ranging from
notes and mailing list responses for elaborating descriptions of data
structures and algorithms. It should all be integrated nicely into the
above structured documentation, or deleted if it has served its purpose.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
active_mm
arch_pgtable_helpers
balance
damon/index
free_page_reporting
frontswap
hmm
hwpoison
hugetlbfs_reserv
ksm
memory-model
mmu_notifier
numa
overcommit-accounting
page_migration
page_frags
page_owner
page_table_check
remap_file_pages
slub
split_page_table_lock
transhuge
unevictable-lru
vmalloced-kernel-stacks
vmemmap_dedup
z3fold
zsmalloc